The modernist poetics and experimental film practice of Maya Deren, (1917-1961) / Renata Jackson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jackson, Renata.

Contributor:

Class of 1932 Fund.

Series:

Studies in history and criticism of film ; v. 5.

Studies in history and criticism of film ; v. 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deren, Maya--Criticism and interpretation.

Deren, Maya.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

237 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, [2002]

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Introduction: Voices of Maya Deren in Theme and Variation

Chapters

I. A Thematic Biography

Heritage, Education, and Political Activism

Writing as Political and Creative Expression

Deren and Dunham

New Vocations, New Causes

II. The Aesthetics and Ethics of Anagram

The Structure of Anagram

Socio-historical Commentary and Moral Tenets

A Modernist Aesthetics

Filmmaker/Theorist as Art Critic

III. Deren's Modernist Film Poetics

The Nature of the Medium

Filmmaker/Theorist as Film Critic

A Poetics of Film

IV. Deren's Ritualist Aesthetics

Deren on Ritual Forms

The "Visual Fugue" Project: A Cross-Cultural Counterpoint

Deren in Haiti: The "Visual Fugue" Project Reconsidered

Deren as Ethnographer

The Haitian Footage

V. Theory into Practice

Film as a Time-Form

Choreographies for Camera

Inverted Odysseys

Authorial Intent, Intuitive Reception, and Moral Responsibility

Coda: Stretto Variations

Appendix: Maya Deren Filmography.

Notes:

Filmography (pages 215-216).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-227) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.

ISBN:

0773471472

077349734X

OCLC:

50023663